Typophile

Looking for typefaces similar to The Beatles logo

littlered

Does anyone know what font the Beatles logotype is created from?
Thanks!

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custom. hand-drawn.
The E’s don’t match.

When that was done fonts didn’t even exist probably.

I suspected it was custom.
Any ideas of what might be similar?

As Jan said, it’s hand drawn. I’d think it’s based on the “idea” of Friz Quadrata Bold.
However it’s so distorted compared with the original I’m not sure that will help much.

Jason

“When that was done fonts didn’t even exist probably.”

You’re kidding, right Jan? “Fonts,” as in specific sizes and weights of metal type, preceded the Fab Four by more than a few years... ;)

> You’re kidding, right Jan?

I thought “fonts” is the term just for digital type.
I do know about Gutenberg.

Thanks, all! (I love this site :)
I can work with Fritz Quadrata for my purposes.

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